• Title XI funding Jones Act, Emission Control Areas compliance

Duration: September 1, 2007 to October 22, 2012

General Issues: Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries, Defense, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Homeland Security, Transportation

Spending: about $267,300 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Federal Maritime Commission, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Maritime Administration (MARAD), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Bureau of the Census, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, Natl Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Vice President of the U.S., Interior - Dept of (DOI), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Office of the Vice President of the United States